45 Useful Responsive Web Design Tools For Web Designers

I don’t think there is no point to explain what responsive web design is because we all know what it is why it is important. What are the things behind a successful responsive web development? There are several aspects to help the work flow better and easier. There are some excellent tolls available for web designers to help the work flow. A good set of tools can help to make the prosess easier. Today in this post we gathered 45 Useful Responsive Web Design Tools for Web Designers.

Responsive Grid & Frameworks

Foundation 4

The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Responsive design gets lighter, faster and more advanced, so you can code smarter. It’s a 12-column flexible grid that can scale out to an arbitrary size (defined by the max-width of the row) that’s also easily nested, so you can build out complicated layouts without creating a lot of custom elements. And when the Grid isn’t enough for your site, it just gets out of the way.

Gumby 2

Gumby 2 is built with the power of SASS. SASS is a powerful CSS preprocessor which allows us to develop Gumby itself with much more speed — and gives you new tools to quickly customize and build on top of the Gumby Framework.

Golden Grid System

A folding grid for responsive design. Golden Grid System (GGS) splits the screen into 18 even columns. The leftmost and rightmost columns are used as the outer margins of the grid, which leaves 16 columns for use in design.

Bootstrap

Frameless

Frameless shouldn’t really be in this roundup, seeing as it’s neither truly responsive or an actual framework. The core idea makes it easy to imagine and build layouts for infinite viewports, with the frameless grid simply adding columns as and when they’re required.

Less Framework 4

1140px CSS Grid System

The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser. Beyond a certain point it uses media queries to serve up a mobile version, which essentially stacks all the columns on top of each other so the flow of information still makes sense.

Wirefy

Wirefy is a style agnostic wireframe tool built on the principles of content first. It allows you to create functional responsive wireframes using standard elements. Many frameworks focus on quick layouts and base styles. This allows you to focus on the content rather than the subjective design decisions.

Base

Columnal

The Columnal CSS grid system is a “remix” of a couple others with some custom code thrown in. The elastic grid system is borrowed from cssgrid.net, while some code inspiration (and the idea for subcolumns) are taken from 960.gs.

Gridless

Gridset

Gridset is a tool for making grids, designed and built by the team at Mark Boulton Design. Responsive design forcing us into working and thinking differently about web layouts, the maths involved in designing for a plethora of different screen sizes started to take up valuable time and cause more than a few headaches.

Responsive Testing Tools

XRespond

Adobe Edge Inspect

Responsive Design Testing Tool – Matt Kersley

This tool has been built to help with testing your responsive websites while you design and build them. You can enter your website’s URL into the address bar at the top of this page (not your browser’s address bar) to test a specific page.

Responsive Tools

Resize My Browser

Responsivepx

Enter the url to your site – local or online: both work – and use the controls to adjust the width and height of your viewport to find exact breakpoint widths in pixels. Then use that information in your media queries to create a responsive design.

Responsive Web Design Sketch Sheets – MightyMeta

Responsive Wireframes – ThisMansLife

The ‘wireframes’ on this page (which are only very simple, high-level examples) were created with HTML/CSS, and some argue that this is the answer; to design in the browser. Although a logical approach, for some this is too harsh a shift in approach. The creation of code is a precise process, with intention, a purposeful act.

Isotope

Isotope: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. Isotope’s animation engine takes advantage of the best browser features when available — CSS transitions and transforms, GPU acceleration — but will also fall back to JavaScript animation for lesser browsers.

jqFloat.js

jqFloat.js is a jQuery plugin that able to make any HTML objects appear to be “floating” on your web page. It helps create simple floating animation and make your websites come alive with these little “floating” object.

Masonry

Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.

Adaptive Images

FlexNav

A jQuery Plugin for Responsive Menus. The mock navigation you see above is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent site menu with drop downs. Special attention is paid to touch screens using click events for tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav).

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